The Causal Effects of Youth Cigarette Addiction and Education 
Rong Hai and James Heckman  

README File for replication package   


1. Overview  

This research was conducted with restricted access to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) data. De-identified public versions of data are provided to replicate the main results of the paper.    


2. The Stata program "master.do" produces all the figures and tables contained in the "outputs" folder.    


3. The “nlsy97” folder contains NLSY97 data and Stata do files that analyze NLSY97 data. 


4. The “model” folder contains (1) model simulated data and Stata do files that analyze model simulated data, (2) C++ programs for parameter estimation and various model simulations. 